Tag: Sviatoslav Richter
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Sviatoslav Richter in the 1950s, Vol. 2
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Schumann Piano Music
“Richter’s account of the Fantasia in C is a wonderfully poetic performance. (His) phrasing, his magnificent control of dynamics, his gift for seeing a large-scale work as a whole – all these contribute towards the impression of unmatchable strength and vision” (Penguin Guide 3 stars) “How beautifully he makes the instrument sing in the soaring…
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Sviatoslav Richter in the 1950s, Vol. 5
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Sviatoslav Richter in the 1950s, Vol. 3
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Sviatoslav Richter in the 1950s, Vol. 7
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Sviatoslav Richter in the 1950s, Vol. 4
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Schumann & Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos
(Schumann): “lacks no style” (Tchaikovsky): “The element of struggle for which this work is famous is all too clear: these two musical giants did not always agree” -Penguin Guide
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Music for Viola and Piano
“there is much to be said for the spareness of the contrast achieved by the alto stringed instrument alongside the piano in the more elegiac viola sonata. In this form, the piece is lonelier, the viola nobler. Bashmet’s version of the original version (with Sviatislav Richter on Olympia, recorded in 1985, issued in 1997) makes…
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Beethoven: Eroica Variations, Op. 35; Six Variations, Op. 34 & Op. 76 & Schumann: Noveletten Nos. 2, 4 & 8
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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 3, 4, & 27
“Orchestral solidity of sound makes the first movements immediately impressive. But the true scaling of heights comes in the slow movement of the C major—a colossal psychodrama here—and, unexpectedly, in the shadowy third movement of the E flat. The Op. 90 Sonata is mellower, never to the point of actually smiling, but unobtrusively responsive to…
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Chopin: Four Scherzi & Selections from Preludes, Op. 28
“Richter is not usually thought of as a ….Chopin player, and yet he strides through the four Scherzos with an abundance of technique and deftly-coloured textures that make this version a definite front-runner.” -Gramophone “Some marvellous playing here …. in an …assortment of Chopin Preludes from a live concert” -Penguin Guide
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Schubert: Piano Sonatas Nos. 9 & 11; Moments Musicaux (Nos. 1, 3, 6)
“not just a case of the performer subordinating himself to the composer, but of both, united in the service of music’s greatest miracle—an entire attitude to life encapsulated in sound.… From the opening phrases of each it is clear that his sights are set on long-term processes—this is not playing which depicts; rather it maps…
